- “Ilya’s idea to do it. Alex made it work. I got the Nobel prize” -
Goeffrey
Hinton
- “Path of least resistance” - Kelsey
Hightower
- “If I
Had More Time, I Would Have Written a Shorter Letter”
- “Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional” - What I Talk About When
I Talk About Running
- “Progress over perfection” - Elena Verna
- best way to learn is to “ask good questions”?
- “something good happens everyday” - Elizabeth Stone
- “Story before glory” - Kendrick Lamar
- “Advice Doesn’t Have to Be Complicated to Be Effective”
- “Make a decision when you are comfortable with it” – separate
decision from discussion - Jean Chrétien,
91yo Canadian PM
- “Stay true to yourself, be kind to others.”
- “progress can happen slowly, but should be meaningful”
- “The whole point of saving and investing is delaying gratification
in the present to enjoy some gratification in the future.”
- “You have
the foundations, but the thing that will limit you at this point is if
you don’t become equally good at communicating. That means writing, that
means presenting. You should look into the writing classes at Stanford,
the public speaking classes at Stanford. Not math, not engineering,
communication.”
- “Good shooting is an acquired thing” - Cam Johnson
- “if can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything”
- Go,
Jeff, Wacky Ideas.
- past is never wasted when it connects to the future.
- make time your best friend
- ride the energy